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 News 27/Oct/09  


Sorry, we are no longer offering this software. For those who already purchased the AmbiophonicDSP we will still offer support, just PM mosc on this forum. Thanks for your support and understanding.

AmbiophonicDSP VST plugin by Robin Miller and Howard Moscovitz now on available at the electro-music.com store at an introductory price. Click here.

AmbiophonicDSP is a very powerful, yet very affordable, Effect VST™ (Stein (...more...)
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  25/Feb/09  

by Shane Morris

electro-music.com now has Regularly Scheduled Radio Programs!

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You dont have to wait for the next electro-music.com streaming event to have some fun. Several of us have been streaming music informally from computer to computer on the weekends. Just come into the chatroom anytime...people are usually streaming off and on all weekend long from Friday night to Sunday night.

Depending on your computer, you can stream to several people, play as long as you want, and have fun playing in an informal environment. There is much more freedom available to the player in this scenario. Whether you want to perform a 2 hour ambient piece, 30 minutes of noise, or just wanted to show off some new patches...come on in and experiment with us.

It's also a great way to practice your streaming as well...getting better familiarity with the software makes things much easier for streaming events in the future, without the stress on you and the engineers trying to figure out problems in time for a performance. :bangdesk:
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 News 17/May/07  


Exciting music from 16 of the outstanding performing artists appearing at electro-music 2007, June 1-3, in Philadelphia.

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This is the best electro-music sampler yet.

Music by: Mark Mahoney and Michael Peck, Howard Moscovitz, Kevin Kissinger, Mark Jenkins, Margaret Noble, Flourescent Grey, Johathan Block, Astrogenic Hallucinauting, Fringe Element, Warren Sirota, Lynn Bechtold, Brainstatik, The Reverend Mofo, Velva, Gemini, Roland Kuit and Matty Ross, and Kip Rosser. Some are among today's most respected electro-musicians, while some are relatively unknown. The electro-music 2007 Sampler crosses genres - avant garde, techno, classical, jazz, space, political...

This CD represents many of the undulating creativ (...more...)
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  Review 19/Mar/04  
Important Release: Music From The ONCE Festivals


MUSIC FROM THE ONCE FESTIVAL
1961 - 1966

New World Records

ROBERT ASHLEY, GEORGE CACIOPPO, GORDON MUMMA, ROGER REYNOLDS, DONALD SCAVARDA, DAVID BEHRMAN, GEORGE CREVOSHAY, PHILIP KRUMM, PAULINE OLIVEROS, ROBERT SHEFF, BRUCE WISE

The ONCE Festivals of the early 1960s were among avant-garde music's seminal events. The ONCE Group included some of the finest, most influential and imaginative composers and musician of the 20th century. They presented approximately 20 concerts in Ann Arbor, Michigan during this period. These legendary concerts have for most of us remained veiled in the mystery of a past not experienced; that is, until now.

Music From The ONCE Festival is a beautiful 5 CD box released by New World Records in September, 2003. These almost six hours of recordings, most of them of live performances, give us a priceless opportunity to personally experience the ONCE Festivals as a joyous explosion of creativity, exploration, and experimentation in music.

CD #5 - Robert Ashley at the mic
The people at New World Records are to be congratulated for this first-rate production. The recordings themselves are fabulous. The music is not mucked up with artifacts from compression, equalization, reverb, or noise reduction. Most are just straight stereo recordings made by U of M radio station WUOM direct to tape, archived at Northwestern University, and now transferred faithfully to digital. This is as close to being there as possible. You can really feel the energy and excitement. At the end of some of the tracks I feel like jumping to my feet and cheering. Other tracks are less sublime.

Each recording is unique. Some put the listener in the audience. You hear them react to the musicians, often laughing with delight. You get a sense for what it was like to hear this weird music back in the Kennedy-Johnson years. Some of the performances are closely miked. You feel like you're inside the instruments. You can hear brass and reed players breathe as they work with intensity to get new sounds from their instruments. Everything is experimental - new arrangements of instruments, new ways of playing them, new idioms, new ways to explore time itself. There are a few wonderful early examples of electronic and electro-acoustic tape music. Robert Ashley's The Forth of July (1960) is a gem.

This box set comes with a wonderful 136 page book. The notes by Leta E. Miller are key to making these recordings accessible. She provides the background on the times, the musicians, and the performances. The notes are detailed, thorough, and a fun read. There are many priceless photos that catch the spirit of the 60s. There are pictures of performances so you get an understanding of the sets, and there are examples of experimental musical scores - fascinating. The book also contains extensive and informative "composers notes" by Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, and Donald Scavarda.

I give this CD set my highest recommendation. It has the potential to forever change the way you hear music.

This product is available directly the electro-music.com. Buy it - get yourself or someone you love a beautiful gift, and support our site at the same time.


To provide more background on the ONCE Festivals, we quote Paul Tai, of New World Records:

Ann Arbor, Michigan, seems an unlikely site for the establishment of a major avant-garde festival that would shake the new-music community. Tucked away in America’s heartland, the city is equally removed from the Eastern metropolises whose artists pride themselves on sensing the pulse of the times, and from the nonconformist West Coast. Yet during the 1960s Ann Arbor played host to one of the most extraordinary adventures in American music history: the annual ONCE Festival and its nexus of related activities.


In part ONCE was fostered by the cultural richness in Michigan: For instance, Gordon Mumma, one of its founders, played French horn in five amateur and semi-professional orchestras while he was still in high school. ONCE also benefited from its proximity to the University of Michigan, which offered a reservoir of talented performers and composers—although the Festival operated throughout its history independently of (and at times in opposition to) various constituencies within the School of Music. But mainly ONCE arose from the fortuitous and coincidental intersection of a group of enterprising young composers—Mumma, Robert Ashley, George Cacioppo, Roger Reynolds, and Donald Scavarda—who joined forces with an innovative community of visual artists.

The ONCE Festivals—four to seven performances per year in February and March—formed the centerpiece of the group’s activities. Programs for the first five years (1961–65) list 170 works by 92 composers, most on the cutting edge of the national and international new- music scene. Although it operated on a shoestring budget, ONCE attracted artists from across the country, and even from Europe. The first Festival opened with Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian, and musicians from Pierre Boulez’s Parisian concert series, Domaine Musical. Pianist Paul Jacobs played solo concerts two years running. Terry Jennings, La Monte Young, Morton Feldman, John Cage, and David Tudor came from New York, as did the Camerata Quartet and the Judson Dance Theater. The Dorian Woodwind Quintet came from Massachusetts, Nancy and Bert Turetzky from Connecticut, Pauline Oliveros from California. Alvin Lucier brought the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, Jack McKenzie directed the University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, and Lukas Foss came to Ann Arbor with a new-music ensemble from SUNY Buffalo. A group of ONCE artists even performed at the Venice Biennale in 1964.

The primary aim of ONCE’s founders—Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, George Cacioppo, Roger Reynolds, and Donald Scavarda—was to create a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge music. To this end they were phenomenally successful. Performers and composers—whether little-known or renowned—embraced the endeavor, demanding almost nothing in return. Perhaps most important, however, ONCE acted as a creative stimulus for its organizers. Scavarda describes the adventure as an explosion of pent-up energy: “Suddenly we could write anything we wanted and have it heard.” And they did. The ONCE composers—and many guest artists—wrote a host of new works, some experimental, others more traditional.

What united the ONCE composers was their exploration of sound, whether through the medium of extended techniques on traditional instruments, electronic (or electronically modified) timbres, or the intersection of musical sounds with those of the environment.

A major slice of ONCE’s rich musical legacy—35 works constituting six hours of music—is presented here, almost all for the first time.



Track listing:

Disc 1: 1961 [72:56]
Robert Ashley – Sonata (7:44) 2/25/61
Donald Scavarda – Groups for Piano (1:03) 2/25/61
George Cacioppo – String Trio (10:23) 3/4/61
Roger Reynolds – Epigram and Evolution (8:50) 3/4/61
Gordon Mumma – Sinfonia for 12 Instruments and Magnetic Tape (12:03) 3/4/61
Donald Scavarda – In the Autumn Mountains (7:01) 3/4/61
Bruce Wise – Two Pieces for Piano and Chamber Group (6:23) 3/4/61
Robert Ashley – The Fourth of July (18:37) 2/25/61

Disc 2: 1962 [72:23]
Donald Scavarda – Matrix for Clarinetist (9:07) 6/2/62
Roger Reynolds – Wedge (7:56) 2/10/62
Gordon Mumma – Meanwhile, A Twopiece (7:16) 2/10/62
Donald Scavarda – Sounds for Eleven (10:55) 2/16/62
Gordon Mumma – From Gestures II (13:14) 2/16/62
George Cacioppo – Bestiary I: Eingang (7:16) 2/16/62
Robert Ashley – Details (2b) (7:09) 12/16/62
Robert Sheff (aka Blue Gene Tyranny) – Ballad (8:31) 12/16/62

Disc 3: 1962–63 [74:21]
Gordon Mumma – Large Size Mograph (8:09) 12/16/62
Robert Ashley – Fives (12:36) 2/9/63
Gordon Mumma – A Quarter of Fourpiece (4:56) 2/9/63
George Cacioppo – Two Worlds (6:02) 2/10/63
Roger Reynolds – Mosaic (9:37) 2/10/63
George Cacioppo – Pianopieces 1-3 (8:19) 2/16/63
Roger Reynolds – A Portrait of Vanzetti (20:27) 2/16/63
Gordon Mumma – Greys (3:19) 12/3/63
Stereo electronic music for the film/score Greys by Donald Scavarda

Disc 4: 1963–1964 [76:32]
Philip Krumm – Music for Clocks (10:24) 2/17/63
Robert Sheff – Diotima (18:57) 2/28/64
George Crevoshay – 7PTPC (5:57) 2/29/64
Donald Scavarda – Landscape Journey (9:31) 2/25/64
George Cacioppo – Advance of the Fungi (15:54) 2/25/64
Robert Ashley – in memoriam … Crazy Horse (symphony) (15:12) 2/25/64

Disc 5: 1964–1966 [76:52]
Bruce Wise – Music for Three (29:30) 2/26/64
George Cacioppo – Time on Time in Miracles (9:44) 2/12/65
David Behrman – Track (10:11) 2/13/65
Pauline Oliveros – Applebox Double (17:07) 3/28/66
Robert Ashley – Quartet (9:51) 3/28/66
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Hong Waltzer generates the video art while Brainstatik opens for the electro-music chamber orchestra at Sarnoff Labs in Princeton, New Jersey
We are proud to preset on-demand streaming audio for the premiere performance of the electro-music chamber orchestra held at the Sarnoff Labs auditorium in Princeton, New Jersey on December 15, 2007.

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Set 1 (50:26) - Brainstatic

Set 2 (47:11) - experimental composition


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